Doong Ji Korean Restaurant

Checked out Doong Ji Korean Restaurant this time round. According to a local website, it was highly raved. So we decided to give it a shot. It's located at the far east of Singapore which made it very inconvenient for us as we stayed in the west. It made matter worst when the GPS brought us to the wrong place. The undependable GPS brought us to Upper East Coast Road which was not even close to where we wanted to go... Irritated and hungry, we almost wanted to give up. However we didn't and finally managed to find the place.
The restaurant was not something that I would expect. It was a family restaurant, small but very crowded. The crowd were mainly Koreans and a few locals. The restaurant was owned by a Korean couple and they serve authentic Korean cuisine. The service of the restaurant was excellent. When we were queuing, the boss even came to apologize and served us drinks to make our wait a pleasant one.

The side dishes and drinks were also topped up regularly and the staffs were really attentive.
We ordered the Ginseng chicken soup and the roast pork belly. Initially, I wanted to order 2 serving of rice but was advised by the boss that 1 serving of rice is actually more then enough because there is glutinous rice in the ginseng chicken soup. True enough, we hardly touched the 1 serving of rice and we were totally stuffed. What a waste of food... :( Thought the boss was quite nice to advise us accordingly and not made us order just for the sake of ordering. He could have ignored the fact that we were ordering too much in order for him to earn a little bit more from us. Really a honest chap and an additional plus point, he is actually quite good looking... Haha.

The ginseng chicken soup was really yummy, I could really taste the ginseng in the soup and it was really good. Especially on a wet and cold weather, there is only 1 word to describe it, Heavenly.

The roast pork belly was also very good. The meat was very soft and tender with a perfect amount of fats. I know it's really unhealthy but it's not an everyday issue that you consume such unhealthy good, right? The best part, you do not need to barbecue the meat yourself. Which means no more needing to smell of barbecue pork belly when you come out of the restaurant. Isn't it great?
Would really want to go back there to try their other authentic Korean cuisine. They look really good but spicy.

So overall I would give it a 4/5 hearts.

Doong Ji Korean Restaurant

222 East Coast Road